AMPERSAND : THE FOUNDATIONS

AMPERS&ND is a multimedia archival experiment examining the processes and practices underlying the collective synthesis of knowledge and art.

AMPERS&ND represents a living chronicle of the exploration into our ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘ways of making’ in various intellectual and creative disciplines, exemplified through the emphasis on metacognition (thinking about thinking) and metacreativity (creative ways of creating) as lenses of examination.

AMPERS&ND moves between spaces of institutional knowing (through scholarship, empirical research, and critical theory) and embodied creative practice (through interdisciplinary collaboration, multimedia documentation, and aesthetic theory) to illustrate how processes of knowing and making converge, diverge, resonate, and replicate between mediums; an extended exercise in multimodal jazz.

AMPERS&ND was first conceptualized during a storyteller residency at the diverse intelligences summer institute in st. andrews, scotland. this institute brings together interdisciplinary scholars and artists working at the intersections of their fields in the name of pursuing a deeper understanding of knowledge, culture, and meaning formation.

Below you can engage with AMPERS&ND as a work-in-process, examine some of its core foundations and frames of reference (as they relate to the philosophy, economics, sociology, and performance of creative exchange), and learn more about the current and future directions of the project.

¿HOW IS KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIZED &&& WHY DO WE ENGAGE?

¿HOW DOES KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTION TAKE PLACE &&& 

WHAT ARE THE RULES/PARAMETERS OF EXCHANGE?

¿WHAT DO WE OBSERVE &&& EXPERIENCE DURING THESE INTERACTIONS?